#Post-paleozoic

[asphodeline-lutea]

I did something

Sorry Paleozoic fans and httyd book fans >:]

Explanation:

This is the only fossil of Schinderhannes bartelsi, "the last anomalocaris" from the early Devonian period.

When it was found, the fossil had been pyritized, turning it a color of gold.

The words are taken from the novel How to Betray a Dragon's Hero, the 11th book of the series How to Train Your Dragon.

Here the protagonist is writing in his memoir about a character who sacrificed his life for him.

[estebanthrives]

🌹 Today you deserve a treat 🍫

So why not bite into the opportunity of a lifetime by venturing forth into the mysterious, perilous and steamy world of the Cambrian Ocean Fauna?

🐚💘🦐

Hey

I made a video after speculating on what the Cambrian Ocean might've sounded like! Spent a few days doing research and others learning a little bit of video and sound editing. Sound design is hard!

Roaring winds, crashing waves and tectonic activity surround the flourishing wildlife developing in the Paleozoic seafloor.

And in there, a menagerie of distinct sounds gathers.

The clicking of legs, the pinching of claws, the brushing of primitive fins and calls made up of buzzes, chirps and squeaks; some of the very first songs telling stories of a bygone era.

I hope it strikes a good balance between a primitive invertebrate paradise landscape and an light atmospheric track to put on the background while you go on about your day.

And if you wanted a pleasant surprise for you or your partner...

💐🦐

Enjoy!

[gay-caveman]

*grabs you by your chest hair* you WILL look at memes about my special interest

[hallucigeniahive]

Paleo Appreciation Post #1

this here's a Hallucigenia. it's a wacky-lookin' worm-thing from the cambrian named cuz it looks like a weird hallucination. they're tiny lil fellas, only about .5 to 5 cm (or .25 to 2.25 inches if you're from that hamburger place) and have a slender neck, spindly legs and some mean-looking spikes. you can find 'em in deposits like the burgess shale in british columbia or floating around your house if you chug dish soap.

a little thing i'd like to add is that for quite some time, paleontologists thought those gnarly spikes were its legs (which is odd). slightly less odd is that bulbous head there; that's not supposed to be there! the "head" is actually the result of this lil fella's insides exploding out one end (because i hate to break it to ya, this thing's long dead).

this isn't some really inefficient way of telling the world i've found a living Hallucigenia, that's a velvet worm. some taxonomists propose that Hallucigenia and this guy right here are part of the same clade, dubbed Panarthropoda, which also includes all living arthropods and tardigrades. in this proposed clade, both velvet worms and tardigrades are listed as descendants of Hallucigenia's phylum, which is neato.

i hope you appreciate the dude™ as much as me.

[ravewing]

took this breathtaking picture in the ocean yesterday

[thesteriuswife]

Things i love most about AZ ❤

I love his flat wide nose (his biracial swag) and his messy hair. I think his eye bags are charming and his big hands are too. I love that he's super extra tall for reasons that aren't actually explained in game (the magic radiation from the ultimate weapon is to blame) ❤ I wish he was utilized more int he game's story! Of course I'm biased here, but there's a lot of intrigue with him. An early bronze age king who is the blood relative of the game's antagonist?! Not to mention that their flaws parallel one another- viewing the world in an ugly and pessimistic light turn them inwards, and towards committing violence, selfish acts. It's so neat to me and yet Lysandre and AZ don't even actually Talk to one another on screen 😭 but that's besides the point. something about looking Desperately for redemption (salvation!) and yet being too self centered and thinking about your Own wants to see the clear solution... Floette returned to him in the end- but it was only after he decided to try and Let Go of his pain. I genuinely think that if he decided to pause his search- if he decided to sit down with himself and instead of wallowing (for centuries!) in self pity and Try to move on she would have come to him sooner... but that's interesting, isn't it? We don't learn what kind of king he was, but if's a fact that he used his unique inventions in order to further Kalos' development as a region. I also think that while he understood generosity and kindness in basic terms, he was the kind of person to stop caring once his part ofit was done. He left it to other people to solve their problems for themselves, even if those problems were caused, in some small part, by him. he realizes now where he was wrong, of course. he wants to be more loving in the way he interacts with the world and the people within it. such a thing is easier said than done, but he has an eternity to figure it out. Nerine's very much had a jumpstart on this, but she's not perfect either... that's okay (she doesn't have to be perfect!), because they can figure it all out together. slowly walking, one step at a time...

[what-a-fella]

my toxic trait is that i think i would do numbers in the Paleozoic Era

[kingsbride-moved]

Part of AZ's #issue is that he's a bit self centered and inconsiderate in a "no one else in the world can understand what I'm going through. No one has suffered as much as I have." way 💔 and the thing is that not completely untrue at this point 😭 some of his experiences are completely unique due to his immortality... You'd think that 3000 years would give someone a lot of time to reflect on their actions and change for the better... but it also gives someone a lot of time to justify their actions to themselves wallow within those turbulent emotions. By the time of XY AZ's anger has mostly faded and now he's just Sad (kind of like a candle finally burning out) but he's spent so long being angry that he hasn't had time to process much else. The end of XY is a sort of new beginning. He's finally let go of that anger completely! But where to go next, when he was running on it for fuel for so long? Luckily he doesn't need to wait another 3,000 years to find that out... <3 (love is the answer!)

[mostly-prehistoric]

The Cambrian explosion goes hard

[ix-c-999]

paleozoic blinkies

[this post has no DNI other than not to involve it in discourse, mockery, or other harassment]

[nocountryforiguanodon]

Announcing Woodward Wednesdays

I have for a while wanted to post paleoart by the regrettably underappreciated early paleoartist, illustrator and a pioneer of females in paleoart, Alice B. Woodward. I originally planned a big post for International Women's Day, but my inability to keep on schedule scuttled those plans. To make up for that mistake, I'm announcing a recurring weekly theme: Woodward Wednesdays! I'll be sharing some select works by Alice Woodward that I've been trying to clean up and retouch from old scans of books, so they won't be quite on par with scanned or photographed originals, which if exist are behind paywalls. Hopefully they'll be some of the best freely available versions of her works anyway. As a taster of things to come, I want to kick things off with three rarely reproduced images from Evolution in the Past by Henry R. Knipe, from 1912.

This untitled illustration faces the title page, and is more symbolic than realistic, but showcases Woodward's talent more generally as an illustrator.

Titled "Silurian Marine Life" this piece almost feels like a still life, and simultaneously could be a neat little museum diorama. Also that orthocone is strangely adorable.

While it's Woodward's work on dinosaurs that most usually gets remembered in our time, she also illustrated both Paleozoic and Cenozoic life, perhaps more than Mesozoic taxa. This piece features Inostrancevia hunting pareiasaurs from the water, a highly dynamic scene the like of which I do not believe I've seen in paleoart either from this era or after.

[nwarrior777]

""""""hot take""""""" (it's actually not and i am surprised that i don't see much posts about it) but like

can we as society stop to use that """" ugly filter"""" on tiktoks and shorts with " first something uncool hapenning (ugly filter) then something cool (the person is conventional beatiful) " pattern

like. why th. why the hell is it a thing. this filter making you """ugly"""" by the way, by making your lips and nose much bigger. like.... ???? i am so confused. it sounds like some Paleozoic shit, why i see this in my 2023 internet

i mean, that filter users don't know that, idk, people with big noses and lips exist? people with asimetrical face/body exist? people with health conditions (syndroms?..) which making their appearance unique in a simmilar to this filter ways exist?

i am. writing it cause i've seen this at least at 3 vid blogers which i like and it was not very nice surprise. these blogers usually bodypositive and then boom! wtf???

dear lord, don't do shit which people can look on and feel themselves ugly!

[gay-caveman]

TRILOBITES !!!!!? I HAVE SEEN TRILOBITES AT THE AMNH!! OH EM EGE !!! AUTISM 🔛🔝

[quark-nova]

Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic pride flags!

Inspired by this post

From left to right, top to bottom: Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic and combined Mesozoic-Cenozoic!

[statecryptids]

OZARK HOWLER- ARKANSAS

The Ozarks are a range of low mountains found primarily in Northern Arkansas and southern Missouri with portions extending into Oklahoma and Kansas.   Their origins lie in the late Paleozoic when sand, silt, coral, and shells built up as layers of sludge on the bottom of a sea that covered  what would eventually become the American South. Over time these sediments hardened into rock- sand became sandstone, silt became slate, and the shells and coral became limestone- and the movement of tectonic plates pushed them upwards into a low dome-like plateau.  Over the next 485 million years rivers and rain gradually eroded the soft rocks into canyons, cliffs, and caves that have provided habitat for bears, bobcats, otters and other Southern wildlife along with more unusual creatures like blind cave fish, collared lizards and endangered grey bats. And perhaps a cryptid or two.

According to legend, the people of the Ozarks have been haunted for decades by the unearthly screams of a beast dubbed the Black Howler.  Those who have caught a glimpse of the monster describe it as a dark-furred cat nearly the size of a bear. Other reports claim it has glowing red eyes and demonic horns sprouting from its head.

Explanations for the beast range from a normal, though unknown, species of large cat to something more supernatural. A few people have even compared the beast to English and Welsh legends of black dogs, cŵn annwn, hellhounds, and other supernatural beasts that bring misfortune to those who see them.

More skeptical people have speculated that the Howler is simply a misidentified cougar. Though these big cats are believed to be extinct in this region, it’s possible that a small population has survived. Or perhaps a few lone individuals have wandered in from other areas. This theory is bolstered by photos from trail cams showing creatures that strongly resemble these animals, and by similar cases of “phantom big cats” occurring in areas of the US where they are not normally found.

Though some claim that legends of the Howler go back generations, cryptozoologist Loren Coleman has found that the first reports of the beast originated from posts on online forums in the late 1990s. His investigations indicate that the “folklore” about the beast was a deliberate hoax to mock the widespread reports of chupacabras and bigfoots that were becoming increasingly widespread at the time thanks to the advent of the internet. Hoax it may be, but the Howler has since become a popular piece of Ozark folklore and sightings are still regularly reported.

 The Howler is especially significant as one of the first urban legend monsters to be created online, laying the groundwork for later, more famous internet creatures like Slenderman, The Rake, Momo, and Trevor Henderson’s Siren Head.

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